A woman whose partner doused her with petrol and set her on fire died more than two decades after the attack partly as a result of the terrible scarring she suffered, a murder jury has been told.
Steven Craig, 58, is accused of the murder of Jacqueline Kirk, who died in hospital in Bath 21 years after he set her alight in a car park in the Somerset seaside town of Weston-super-Mare.
Opening the case at Bristol crown court, Richard Smith KC said…